Place10 series

Place North West first began publishing 10 years ago, in August 2007, when the early signs of the financial crisis started hitting the headlines. To coincide with our 10th birthday, we are publishing a series of articles throughout August, looking back over the past decade at how business and property have changed. Find the articles below:

In 2007, I lived in a one-bedroom apartment, wasn’t married, had no kids, no pets, was an outright retail planner working almost exclusively on a range of Tesco projects, and had a respectable hairline, says Sebastian Tibenham.

It was my first big bank run since Nicaragua in 2000. As the FT’s Central America correspondent, I wrote about the lines of desperate customers – many small-scale coffee farmers – lining up outside the shuttered branches of Interbank after it ran out of money.

Researcher Ed Howe remembers 10 years ago, watching with wide-eyed adolescent enthusiasm as Manchester’s cityscape transformed. Excitement and optimism were in the air, jostling for space amongst the cranes which littered the city’s skyline at the time.